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Author
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean? The Clean Body explores one of the most fundamental and pervasive cultural changes in Western history since the seventeenth century: the personal hygiene revolution. In the age of Louis XIV bathing was rare and...
Series
Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture volume Volume 19
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English